September 26, 2018 — Today 37 Adventures are pleased to announce details of RYD’s self-titled debut album, which will be released on January, 18, 2019. RYD, aka North London producer and songwriter Ryan Downie, today also reveals the album’s first single "I See U". Listen to it HERE. Pre-order RYD & stream "I See You" HERE.

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Commenting on the track, RYD says: “I See U is about finding that someone who understands you and helps you reconnect with yourself,“ he explains. “This is one of my more optimistic songs, but it’s tinged with a vulnerability and dependence which always make me feel uneasy.”

The internet is a place to explore and to escape, but it’s also an arena to become lost in. It’s a mirror but it also distorts. For producer and songwriter RYD, it’s a means of communication, but it’s also a way of shutting conversation down.

Opaque electronics matched to heart-rending songwriting, bleached out digital production underpinning the most poignant of vocals, RYD’s debut album is a work of solitary creativity that is constantly in flux. The album follows RYD’s 2017 EP Now There’s Nowhere, an astonishing viral success that has amassed over 1 million streams on Spotify alone.

“It was kind of therapy for me,” he says of the EP, a work tied to the agonizing dissolution of a toxic relationship. “I turned to music to not think about. Writing that EP gave me closure, I guess. That’s how it’s been for me musically… I need to write about it in order to let those feelings out. That’s kind of how I transfer my thoughts on to a page, so to speak.” .

 

RYD TRACK LISTING:
01. Don't
02. Work It Out
03. I See U
04. Plans
05. Away
06. Could've Been
07. You Only Had To Look Back
08. Leaves
09. Holding Back
10. Retain

RYD 2018 TOUR DATES:
9/28 – Manchester, UK – Band on the Wall
10/3– London, UK – Oslo*
10/20 – Cardiff, UK – SWN Festival
11/23– London, UK – Omeara**

*supporting Conner Youngblood
**supporting Highsakite